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Naked appoints a new UK management team

Naked Communications is installing a new UK management team to free up its founding partners to focus on international expansion.

The agency has promoted Geoff Gray, Jo Pearce and Niku Banaie to the
roles of managing partner with responsibility for running its UK
operation.

Naked's four partners, Will Collin, John Harlow, Ivan Pollard and Jon
Wilkins will continue to focus on client business and growing the
agency's operations in markets outside of the UK.

Tracy Darwen, Naked's UK managing director takes on the role of global
client director, working on business including Nokia, Coca-Cola and
Heineken.

Matt Hardisty, the head of innovations at Naked and the agency's first
employee, has been promoted to the role of global creative director.

The three new UK managing partners have all been at the agency for close
to three years. Gray originally joined to help run the now-defunct Naked
Ambition operation, Pearce is a former planning director at the creative
agency Soul, and Banaie joined from Carat International.

Collin said: "We now have operations in six countries and there are 15
ventures in total in the Naked group. The need for management support
across these is growing."

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